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UPPSTART MALMÖ

In the Malmö model, we
coordinate the city and the
local business community with
our partners and investors.

Entrepreneurship and enterprise create jobs. after the challenges of 2020 the first half of this year
Jobs strengthen growth, and growth creates was marked by two completely different aspects.
confidence in the future, which in turn reduces Most meetings were still conducted digitally. And
segregation and social exclusion. It was with this at the same time, as vaccination got under way
firm conviction that Uppstart Malmö was founded and confidence in the future increased, job growth
in 2011. The goal was clear – to get more Malmö returned to more normal numbers.
residents to work. Since the beginning, Uppstart
Malmö has aimed to help Malmö become a city During the summer, Tillväxt Malmö’s companies
where both companies and individuals can grow. The surpassed 2,000 new jobs. Since its launch in 2011,
combination of supporting companies’ ability to grow Uppstart Malmö’s various activities and the com-
and create more jobs, together with activities that panies with which they work have been involved in
seek out, pilot and support young people’s entry into investing more than SEK 70 million. They have also
the labour market, has proved to be a very successful helped and developed over 300 companies and
model. Dan Olofsson was one of the initiators, and created over 3,000 new jobs in the Malmö region.
his network played a major role in their success in This does more than benefit the people who get jobs
involving a number of influential entrepreneurs and and the companies that gain new employees – in the
investors. Uppstart Malmö is run as a foundation on long run, it benefits Malmö in a larger perspective.
a non-profit basis, and the day-to-day operational
work is carried out by the foundation’s own staff and WEB
business developers. We benefit greatly from our
network in the business community, and we often uppstartmalmo.se
collaborate with and get help from representatives
from our partner companies.

Uppstart Malmö has initiated and operates Tillväxt
Malmö, an enterprise that offers business develop-
ment for growing companies in Malmö. Through the
foundation’s previous projects Uppsök Malmö, Good
Malmö and On Track, hundreds of young jobseekers
have found their way into the labour market.

THE YEAR IN BRIEF
The foundation became a partner in Level, Malmö’s
new international incubator. For Tillväxt Malmö,